Glitch art is deliberate manipulation of data, and data is ever evolving. As our lives continuously get transcribed into bits, our relationship with data keeps changing; binding closer. The ability to control the usage of data, of information, is in the interest of anyone who has pieces of themselves stored somewhere.Jpeg crush is a workshop aimed to introduce the public to the flawed aspects of our visual society.Demystifying compression technologies and reclaiming them by databending techniques is the first step to understanding the digital spaces where our databodies sonder.

Kaspar Ravel — new media artist && off/online curator. From the subcultures of internet art 藍歌. He studied computer science and theater [at] Sorbonne University only to end up researching surreal data politics || poetics. //https://www.kaspar.wtf

The workshop is conducted in English language.To participate, you need to bring a laptop, as well as short video clips.Applications (open until Nov 17th 23:59CET): hello@formatc.hr

clive is a C audio live-coding skeleton. It allows you to hot-swap DSP processing callbacks, providing not much more than automatic C code recompilation, object code reloading, and state preservation.The workshop will work on dependencies installation, basics of sysadmining and git, CLI, defining DSP and examples similar to clive, sound synthesis and feedback, shaping sounds and a live performance preparation.

Claude Heiland-Allen — From London, UK. Interested in art, computers, free software, math, science. Keeps a blog – mathr.co.uk/blog – on own work (via a static site generator of own creation, cmcms), live coding in C, and various other projects such as dynamo – a Pure-data techno generator, etc. //https://mathr.co.uk

The workshop is conducted in English language.To participate, you need to bring a (GNU/Linux OS) laptop, and (optional) headphones.Applications (open until Nov 20th 23:59CET): hello@formatc.hr

Visual programming languages such as Processing offer exhaustive control over pixel structure in digital formats. There’s a great number of coders on the intersection of code and maths who decided to share their Processing and Python efforts with the world by freely licensing their code and making it available in open repositories.This workshop covers installing the environment needed to run Processing and Python code and will show participants how to change its final visual outcome with simple code alterations.

Vedran Gligo — is a self–taught DIY hacker / artist / cultural event organizer living and working in Zagreb, Croatia. Strongly applying open source principles in everyday life and practice and working to empower the local community by holding free and open digital workshops in Zagreb’s Autonomous Cultural Center through the hacklab01.org project. //https://v3d.space

The workshop is conducted in Croatian language.To participate, you need to bring a laptop, and digital images to manipulate during the workshop.Applications (open until Nov 24th 23:59CET): hello@formatc.hr

This workshop thematizes *language* as both the motif and the source of digital art creation; it notes on various processes and practices of utilizing words as visual art cataysts. Via applying simple cut-and-paste HTML techniques and asemic code interventions – the workshop will focus on creating caleidoscopic personalized artistic compositions built in an electric human-computer dialogue.<invisible text> is to inquire on the software-enabled possibilities of text-based research, copying, decomposing and archiving media for the purpose of creating own communication protocols in the domain of digital art, inbetween of (in)visible texts.

Dina Karadžić — Born and resides in Zagreb, CRO.Mastered in art (MFA, Sculpture) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2012. A member of the Croatian Association of Artists since 2011, of Croatian Association of Professional Artists since 2018, and the Art Director of Format C art org (an artist organization focused in digital art, experimental multimedia research and collaborative creation) since 2014. (Co)works as an independent lecturer; active as an organizer and an artist in the areas of visual | digital | net art; works in stop-mo animation and character design; currently employed by the ACC Attack NGO as a project assistant, and is a Web-Based Media Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude. //https://formatc.hr/j3d1n4

The workshop is conducted in Croatian language.To participate, you need to bring a laptop.Applications (open until Nov 27th 23:59CET): hello@formatc.hr

FFglitch is a precision multimedia editing tool based on FFmpeg. When you glitch a file using a hex editor, it’s like getting a tattoo with a radioactive axe. You might get some cool results, but you have very high chances of dying from blunt trauma or some cancerous genetic mutation.FFglitch, on the other hand, is more like genetic engineering. You manipulate your genes to naturally grow your tattoo.FFglitch produces valid bitstream, so Facebook or YouTube won’t choke on your files. It is so precise it can barely be considered glitching at all.

Ramiro Polla — Likes hacking things. He was an FFmpeg developer for 5 years. “I’m not bad as a software developer, but I’m quite shitty as an artist.” //https://github.com/ramiropolla

The workshop is conducted in English language.To participate, you need to bring a laptop, as well as short video clips.Applications (open until Nov 30th 23:59CET): hello@formatc.hr